MICROSOFT WORD FOR BEGINNERS I (Introdcution to Micorsoft Office Word )

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MICROSOFT WORD FOR BEGINNERS

Microsoft word is an application used for typing, editing, designing and arranging word documents. It is a powerful word processing software developed by Microsoft Corporation. It's part of the Microsoft Office suite, which includes other popular productivity applications like Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook. In today's class, we'll be looking at the tools, bars and other things used in Microsoft word.

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To start with:

First we open the Microsoft Office Word. (Note: Microsoft word can only be opened on your computer if the application is installed on your system. If you don't have Microsoft Word installed, you'll not be able to open it. In my next class, I'll be showing you how to install Microsoft Word). To open your Microsoft word on your computer;

Ø   Click on start button

Ø   (Just above your start button, A box will appear with a search button) Click inside the box and search Microsoft Office Word.

Ø   Click on Microsoft Office Word.

 

The Typing Environment:

The typing environment is an empty space/blank page that appears when you open your Microsoft office Word.  Once you open Microsoft Word, the typing environment will display. I'll be explaining the typing environment, the bars and other things used on Microsoft Word.

Title Bar:

Title bar is the first bar in Microsoft word. It shows the title of our saved work on Microsoft word. On a new page, it displays as DOCUMENT because that particular page is not saved yet. The title changes immediately the page is saved. At the left side of the title bar, we have the office button; at the right side of the title bar we have the close button, restore down/maximize button and minimize button.

Office button:

Office button is located at the right corner of the title bar. It consist of New, Open, save, save as, print, prepare, send, publish and close. I'll be explaining these things one after the other.

New:

New is used for opening or creating a fresh typing environment or new page on Microsoft Word.

Ø   Click on your office button

Ø   Click on new

Ø   On the down part of the box that will appear, you'll see create

Ø   Click on create.

Ø   Your new page is created.

Open:

Open is use to open an existing work in Microsoft word.

Ø   Click on office button

Ø   Click on open

Ø   A box like stuff will pop out

Ø   On the right side of the box, select the location you saved work is

Ø   On the down part of the box

Ø   Type the name of the file you want to open

Ø   Click on open.

Save:

Save button is used to save our document on Microsoft Word.

Ø   Click on office button

Ø   Click on save

Ø   On the right side of the box that will appear, select the location you want to save your work.

Ø   On the down part of the box, type the name you want to save your file/document with

Ø   Click on save.

Save As:

Save as is used to resave or rename a saved file or document.

Note: Whenever we save a work, our title bar changes from document which is the default file or document name to the name we save the file as. So using Save As will change the name of the document again and save it as the name we choose now.

Ø   Click on office button

Ø   Click on Save As

Ø   At the right side of the box that will appear, choose the location you want to save your work.

Ø   On the down part of the box, rename the work or document you want to save.

Ø   Click on save.

Print:

Ø   Click on office button

Ø   Click on print

Ø   A box will appear showing of the printer and enabling us to make our setting before printing.

 Close button

Used for closing Microsoft Word

Restore down/maximize button

Use to make our window smaller or bigger.

Minimize button

Used to close our Microsoft word temporarily.           

Standard Bar:

Standard bar is the second bar in Microsoft Word. It display the Home, Insert, Page Layout, References, Mailings, Review and View tab. Each of these tabs has different ribbon.

Tools bar/ribbon:

Tools bar is the third bar in Microsoft word. It displays the tools/ribbon under the tabs in standard bar (Home, Insert, Page Layout etc.). Tools bar/ribbon changes depending on the tab you working on.

Rulers:

We have the vertical and horizontal rules in Microsoft word.

 Scroll bar:

We have the scroll bar by the right side of the typing environment in Microsoft Word

Task bar:

Task bar is the last bar in Microsoft word. It is located at the down part of the typing environment. It displays the number of pages we working on, the number of words, zoom level, zoom in and zoom out.

Thank you so much for reading.

In our next post, we'll be explaining the tools used in the home tab.